A Brush with the Shaggs
A chat with Dot Wiggin of the Seacoast-based sister band that reinvented music
The Slave Trade in New Hampshire
Early research that evolved into the book Black Portsmouth.
Things You Never Knew About Old Portsmouth Library
The life of the Portsmouth Academy building over 200 years
Turkeygate: A Thanksgiving Scandal
Some stories never let go. I've been retelling this one for half a century.
Turning Seacoast Fact into Historical Fiction
Kenneth Roberts drew heavily from local history for his novels and many have followed
Two Men Who Tore Down Portsmouth
Treadwell and Wentworth mansions lost to history.
Remembering Rock Rest in Kittery
Historian Valerie Cunningham recalls the summer venue for black travelers
Walking the Historic Streets of Portsmouth NH
Explore one of the nation's most walkable heritage destinations
Who Started Strawbery Banke Museum?
It was not a single speech at Rotary, but the effort of many ito launch the museum idea
Spencer Tracy Steers the Mayflower in 1952
Romance and a possible suicide aboard the Hollywood Mayflower in 1952
Why I Hate Fake Pirates
They evoke a spirit of the past that never happened and teach us nothing
Why Louis Wagner Was Definitely the Smuttynose Slayer
Long before writing the book, I was a missionary for fact over fiction.